Example sentences of "[subord] its [adj] counterpart " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we can expect our submarine eruption to be much more explosive than its terrestrial counterpart . |
| 2 | In general , the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart . |
| 3 | There did exist the small Northern Ireland Labour Party which disappeared after the fall of Stormont ; but it had been based on industrial workers , particularly in the shipyards , and remained much smaller in size than its Southern counterpart . |
| 4 | The development of this northern suburb is better understood than its southern counterpart , because enough small-scale excavation has taken place to elaborate the information from the aerial photographs . |
| 5 | The average Chinese household is also much more energy-efficient than its Western counterpart . |
| 6 | He remarks that in America especially there has always been a strong cross-racial homosexual attraction less restrained by social barriers than its heterosexual counterpart ; ‘ the very furtiveness and outlaw status of the gayworld has led to its greater integration across colour lines ’ . |
| 7 | Though more efficient than its Mexican counterpart , it has had to operate under perverse conditions . |
| 8 | Innately more conservative than its urban counterpart , the rural community had not for the most part engaged in widespread and overt political protest in response to the strains that were placed upon it . |
| 9 | * Any unpasteurised cheese will have a stronger , fuller flavour than its treated counterpart . |
| 10 | The Bank of England which has less influence than its German counterpart has been reluctant to advise rate cuts over here . |
| 11 | None of this means that the German text is ‘ better ’ or ‘ worse ’ than its English counterpart . |
| 12 | The editors begin their Introduction by agreeing with Professor David Walker 's statement in the Scottish Legal System that Scottish legal history is closer to that of the Continent than its English counterpart . |
| 13 | is more likely than its active counterpart : |
| 14 | Historically , the American police has almost certainly been more violent and corrupt than its British counterpart . |
| 15 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 16 | Indeed the cabinet noir had a considerably wider scope than its British counterpart . |
| 17 | To this day , the Spanish civil service is more politicized than its British counterpart . |
| 18 | Domesticated grain contains less crude protein than its wild counterpart , and a higher percentage of carbohydrate . |
| 19 | Had Norman Cowans , Ricky Ellcock and Angus Fraser all been healthy , the script would surely have taken its expected course ; as it is , the Middlesex seam attack deserves that ‘ pop-gun ’ tag rather more than its national counterpart . |
| 20 | There is a powerful body of opinion in the defence establishment which supports such a ban , on the grounds that the US Navy 's superiority can only be reinforced if its Soviet counterpart is deprived of the only weapons which could be expected to destroy a US aircraft carrier with a single hit . |
| 21 | Enough remained to show that the northern one was at least g by 7. 5 m ( 292 by 242 ft ) , with two rooms of unequal size at the back , while its southern counterpart , of which only the rear 2.5m ( 8 ft ) was recovered , had apparently lain in a walled compound measuring 13 by 6 m ( 42½ by 19½ ft ) . |
| 22 | The original north passage was retained , with a new spina , while its southern counterpart was blocked and probably used as a guard chamber . |
| 23 | According to this scenario , the maintenance of oppositional structures is constantly being protected by the masculine aspect , while its feminine counterpart strives to undermine them , and even to undermine this constitutive definition itself by the use of reversible structures echoed in the novel 's metaphoric construction . |
| 24 | Can we claim then that the vector potential is as useful as its scalar counterpart in electrostatics ? |
| 25 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 26 | Ice-climbing is n't such a technique-intensive business as its rockier counterpart . |
| 27 | It had immediately bombed and Sir David English , editor of the Daily Mail , had had to be brought in to rescue it by throwing out the new design ideas and making it look as old-fashioned as its daily counterpart . |
| 28 | In the end the NL did become demonstrably pro-Conservative and saw off the IML challenge , but divisions like this played their part in ensuring that the British Navy League was never as large or influential as its German counterpart . |
| 29 | Here I was all excited that my favourite magazine in the States was going to be published here in England … it would be as avant-garde and as much on the literary cutting edge as its American counterpart , but with an added British flair . |
| 30 | The Norman exchequer ( probably instituted in the early years of the century , at the same time as its English counterpart ) used the tally , the chequered cloth , and the abacus to provide records for the illiterate and to overcome the considerable problems posed by the use of Roman numerals in addition and subtraction . |